The Dark Half (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen King
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1960-1988
- Setting: Maine
- Principal Characters: Thaddeus Beaumont, George Stark, Elizabeth (Liz) Beaumont, Alan Pangborn, Wendy Beaumont, william Beaumont, Dr. Hugh Pritchard, Rawlie De Lesseps
- Genres: Long fiction, Horror literature
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Authors or writers, Ghosts or apparitions, 1980’s, New England, Horror, Split personalities, Twins or multiple-birth siblings
- Locales: Maine
Like Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson,” Fyodor Dostoevski’s Dvoynik (1846; The Double, 1917), Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer,” The Dark Hah, Stephen King’s eighteenth novel, is about a doppelganger. In this case, the alter ego is George Stark, the pseudonym of Thad Beaumont. Under his own name, Beaumont, a professor of English at a university in Maine, has written two critically esteemed...
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